Cash (The Rock Creek Six Book 6) by Linda Winstead Jones

Author:Linda Winstead Jones [Jones, Linda Winstead]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Western, Adult, Historical, Cowboys, Romance, Fiction, Forever Love, 19th Century, Bachelor, Single Woman, Rock Creek Six, Series, Confederate Soldiers, Texas, Violence, Friends, Secret Son, Teenager, Mentor, Father, Safety, Protection, Hired Gun, Lawless Towns
Publisher: Linda Winstead Jones
Published: 2012-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

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How many days had he been riding? Danny looked at the unfamiliar landscape surrounding him. He couldn’t remember how many days it had been since he’d been shot. Sometimes he blacked out and when he woke he didn’t know where he was.

The bleeding had stopped, though every now and then the wound in his side would start to seep again. It hurt. It hurt so much he wanted to fall out of the saddle and cry, but he didn’t. He had to get to Nadine. She would make everything right somehow. Melvin was dead, Danny had been forced to shoot a woman, something he’d never intended or expected to be a part of his war, and he hurt.

Nadine would make everything better.

Finally he saw it. Marianna, familiar in so many ways. He rode and he rode and he rode, and the town got no closer. It was always just out of reach. Always too far away.

And then suddenly he was there, among familiar buildings. Nadine would be in school, unless it was a Saturday or a Sunday. He couldn’t be sure of the day, but he was sure she would be in town, in the school-house, studying and assisting the teacher with the little ones. She’d always been good at that, taking care of the little ones.

He left his stolen horse and slipped through an alley, one hand over the wound at his side. He glanced down and saw himself clearly for the first time in days. So much blood. Nadine would be scared at the sight of so much blood, but he didn’t have time to clean himself up and find new clothes. After he saw her, he would take care of such inconsequential matters.

The church was in plain view from the alley as he stopped to rest with his back against the wall. The doors burst open and he squinted at the sight before him. This couldn’t be right. He must be hallucinating.

Nadine walked down the steps. She wore a white satin wedding dress and carried a bouquet of pink flowers. Her father was there, and Joseph Ellington, dressed in his best suit, had his arm hooked through Nadine’s. She smiled so bright.

No, he realized with a shake of his head. She wasn’t smiling, she was crying. Big fat tears ran down her face, and her father ordered her to hush.

And then she smiled again, and Danny sank to the ground with his back against the wall. Bleeding. Hurting. Understanding that everything he’d thought he knew was wrong. One woman had bushwhacked him and Melvin, and Nadine had lied. She’d said she loved him but she didn’t. She was another man’s wife.

He could still see them, but Nadine wasn’t wearing her wedding dress anymore. She still wore white satin, but this was a flimsy slip of a thing. She wasn’t a girl anymore, she was a woman. She began to dance, to remove the slip of satin, but she stopped in the middle of the dance and began to cry again.

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